JD Vance once dismissed conspiracy theories as the product of “fringe lunatics” but he's come to embrace them as his star rises in Republican politics.

JD Vance said over the weekend that he “learned my lesson” on getting ahead of Donald Trump after accidentally announcing an abortion position Trump later disavowed. He might still have some work to do.

From attacks on “childless cat ladies” to claims of migrants devouring neighbors’ pets, Senator JD Vance is providing many Americans with their first glimpse of an ultra-online, aggressively combative generation of rabble-rousing conservatism.

The Republican has said his constituents are eating cats and dogs, but the sources of the complaints have backtracked.